ON AND OFF THE, A VE,NUE, THIS AND THAT T HE vast gardens of Ramhagh Palace, once the seat of the Ma- haraja of Jaipur and today a caravansary for denizens of the \Vestern world, are a dreadful tetnptation to stay put and never bother to take a look at the Other India-the India within the city walls, so far removed in space and time frotn the old British military cantontnents, where \Vest hardly ever Inet East, and where the hest Indian hotels usualJy congregate now. SOll1e- one, though, escaping the peaceful cloIsters of the Rall1hagh Palace, has gone cityward and into the museum in J aipur, and there, beholding among its co]]ections the shirt of an Indian child, has had the idea of translating it into a sort of dress-square-armholed and slit- pocketed-which, ornate in its sky-hlue silk and its trÏ1nmings of etnbroidered pink florets on green, copper, and turquoise vines, has found its way into I.lord & T a, lor's fifth-floor sports de- partlnent. Being the tnost elaborate of the Indian dresses there on show, it is $120, hut $70 is enough to acquire a fellow-Indian of navy cotton with long, loose sleeves and emhroIdery that-how could it fail? -involves, among other items, elephants and water buffaloes. .l\nother dauntless voyager has brought back from Thailand a travel ensem- ble-a skirt, an overblouse, and a little-boy jacket-of sturdy gold cot- ton whose pnnted ornall1entation is whIte and floral. One tnore explorer has, in the Philippines, acquired for- afternoon-and-on shirt dresses of prac- tically cobwebby natural pineapple fibre that dre absolutely beautiful. Italy wcighs in, too, but then it alway s does-this time with stunning coat- dresses of batiste that is (behind a cactus pattern) a mélange of pink, 1\1editerranean blue, sea green, orange, coral, c::lnd mauve. The contribution of 1-.li]]y Pulitzer, who lives no farther away than Palll1 Beach, IS a dress of pink cotton (gold chr y santhemllll1s decorate it) with a wide peekaboo sec- tor through the tnidriff. is $55 to $125. ... cross the aisle are British notions in pink, blue, or ye]]ow angora, for which a cooler clitnate is indicated. The coat-dresses in this lot double as coats over ll1atching polo-shirt dresses or over tank-top sheaths that are whIte down to the hips and then one of the aforementioned hues. ()n the way out, take a look, on the first floor, at the newly arrived luggage in sand nylon straw with an embroider) of black j arn in a design that looks like caning-ll1iles and miles of pieces of every variet, . Y UCATAN, that flat pancake, hdS produced the bales of white cotton dresses in Bonwit's S'fan Room, and the) ll1USt be cottage-industry, for no two of the painted-and-etnbroidered hibiscus patterns are the sall1e. The length is vanable-ankles to above- the-knees-and so is the expense, which S WEDEN, Italy, and France have del- egates in Blooll1ingdale's third- floor conservatory back of the escala- tors. A lot of thetll are knits, such as the short-sleeved sweaters of écru silk- and-linen in a cable stitch, and the long, lean shorts that do suggest Mack Sennett bathing trunks, and the mid- thigh cardigans, which, worn as dresses, are sure to flood the discothèques; $55 to $65. Quite 3 bit less costly are things like the cotton-knit shirts of to- 1na to red that are à deux wIth abo ve- the-knees navy culottes. And there are separates of ivory stretch terrycloth, as soft and flat as lamb's wool, combined wIth natural canvas. I BID, which is fairly new, has stocked its nineteenth-century cal riage house, at 123 East 77th Street, with things froln Provence-dresses of pol- ished lilac cotton with buttercups and azaleas as décor, or of navy cotton twill with dogwood as décor, all of them tucked c::dong the bosom c::lnd Sllr- moun ted b) square collars of white piqué. F'rom our own soil come dresses, tucked to the waist, of larkspur cotton with band collars and, down the front, pearl shoe buttons, to say nothing of dre ses of an écru cotton that looks like crochet, and long dinner-at-home or country-club shirtwaist dresses of white voile with brown and white stripes on the gathered skirts. T'hL top price in the lot is $26. F ROM here on in, rvcl'Jthing is na- tive. To wit: the floor-length pina- fores at J ax, which is always a di77Y whirl. They could do double duty as evening dresses. "'Thite organdie, white organdle sprinkled wIth embroidered whIte bouquets, white lawn in a } eHow poppy print, and robin's-egg crinkled 10? J01'TIO:R ::H:OU-SE@ c!øø þl!øJt J ;f .. o @ '" ,...' v '" , ;t f J :} . {, , ..... ," .,( 'f \ \ ..." r \ From the Regatta Collection: Navy Grog Captain's jacket, $2l. White, pleated skirt, $12. Captain's hat, $8. In 500/0 polyester/509 cotton, Sizes 3-15. Sleeveless yellow & white striped knit shel1, $9. Peck & Peck, New York; The Denver, Denver; Gimbe's Schusters, Milwaukee; Jos Magnin, West Coast; Sanger-Harris Dallas or write to Junior House, Inc., 1407 Broadway, N Y. PRICES SLIGHTLY HIG-HER WEST OF THE ROCKIES